Thursday, January 12, 2012

Time to reflect on surgery and neuro-intervention for intracranial atherosclerotic diseases

Publication year: 2012
Source: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, Available online 11 January 2012
George Kwok Chu Wong, Wai Sang Poon
In view of the early results and halt of recruitment from both the Carotid Occlusion Surgery Study (COSS) and Stenting and the Aggressive Medical Therapy for Preventing Recurrent Stroke in Intracranial Stenosis (SAMMPRIS) study we should seize this opportunity to reflect on future directions, rather than abandoning these procedures, during this period of disillusionment. We here suggest the reasons for the failure of these two clinical trials and review future directions for researche in cerebral revascularization.





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